Transmission power for partial coherent antennas

ABSTRACT

A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided that enable use of a full transmission power for a UE having a first set of coherent antenna ports that is non-coherent to a second set of coherent antenna ports. The apparatus determines a transmission power for a data transmission from the UE to a base station based at least in part on power control signaling from the base station, determines at least one antenna port having non-zero data for transmission, and determines a transmission power split for the at least one antenna port. Then, the apparatus transmits the data transmission from the at least one antenna port, wherein a combined transmission power from the at least one antenna port corresponds to the transmission power determined based at least in part on the power control signaled from the base station.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S)

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser.No. 62/689,812, entitled “Transmission Power for Partial CoherentAntennas” and filed on Jun. 25, 2018, which is expressly incorporated byreference herein in its entirety.

BACKGROUND Technical Field

The present disclosure relates generally to communication systems, andmore particularly, to a transmission power for a User Equipment (UE)having partial coherent antennas.

INTRODUCTION

Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide varioustelecommunication services such as telephony, video, data, messaging,and broadcasts. Typical wireless communication systems may employmultiple-access technologies capable of supporting communication withmultiple users by sharing available system resources. Examples of suchmultiple-access technologies include code division multiple access(CDMA) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) systems, frequencydivision multiple access (FDMA) systems, orthogonal frequency divisionmultiple access (OFDMA) systems, single-carrier frequency divisionmultiple access (SC-FDMA) systems, and time division synchronous codedivision multiple access (TD-SCDMA) systems.

These multiple access technologies have been adopted in varioustelecommunication standards to provide a common protocol that enablesdifferent wireless devices to communicate on a municipal, national,regional, and even global level. An example telecommunication standardis 5G New Radio (NR). 5G NR is part of a continuous mobile broadbandevolution promulgated by Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) tomeet new requirements associated with latency, reliability, security,scalability (e.g., with Internet of Things (IoT)), and otherrequirements. Some aspects of 5G NR may be based on the 4G Long TermEvolution (LTE) standard. There exists a need for further improvementsin 5G NR technology. These improvements may also be applicable to othermulti-access technologies and the telecommunication standards thatemploy these technologies.

A UE may be configured with a first set of coherent antennas and asecond set of coherent antennas, where the first set antennas arenon-coherent with the second set of antennas. The partial coherentantennas can lead to challenges for transmissions from the UE.

SUMMARY

The following presents a simplified summary of one or more aspects inorder to provide a basic understanding of such aspects. This summary isnot an extensive overview of all contemplated aspects, and is intendedto neither identify key or critical elements of all aspects nordelineate the scope of any or all aspects. Its sole purpose is topresent some concepts of one or more aspects in a simplified form as aprelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.

Limitations may be placed on the transmission power for a UE havingpartial coherent antennas. Aspects presented herein improve a UE'stransmission power control for multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)for a UE having partial coherent antennas.

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium,and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a UE havinga first set of coherent antenna ports that is non-coherent to a secondset of coherent antenna ports. The apparatus determines a transmissionpower for a data transmission from the UE to a base station based atleast in part on power control signaling from the base station,determines at least one antenna port having non-zero data fortransmission, and determines a split of transmission power for the atleast one antenna port. Then, the apparatus transmits the datatransmission from the at least one antenna port, wherein a combinedtransmission power from the at least one antenna port corresponds to thetransmission power determined based at least in part on the powercontrol signaled from the base station.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the one or moreaspects comprise the features hereinafter fully described andparticularly pointed out in the claims. The following description andthe annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative featuresof the one or more aspects. These features are indicative, however, ofbut a few of the various ways in which the principles of various aspectsmay be employed, and this description is intended to include all suchaspects and their equivalents.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communicationssystem and an access network.

FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C, and 2D are diagrams illustrating examples of a first5G/NR frame, DL channels within a 5G/NR subframe, a second 5G/NR frame,and UL channels within a 5G/NR subframe, respectively.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a base station and userequipment (UE) in an access network.

FIG. 4 illustrates an example of a wireless communication device havingnon-coherent antenna ports.

FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a wireless communication device havingpartial coherent antenna ports.

FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate example aspects of generating a datatransmission.

FIGS. 7A, 7B, 7C, and 7D illustrate example precoder matrices.

FIG. 8 is an example communication flow between a UE and a base station.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a method of wireless communication.

FIG. 10 is a conceptual data flow diagram illustrating the data flowbetween different means/components in an exemplary apparatus.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardwareimplementation for an apparatus employing a processing system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The detailed description set forth below in connection with the appendeddrawings is intended as a description of various configurations and isnot intended to represent the only configurations in which the conceptsdescribed herein may be practiced. The detailed description includesspecific details for the purpose of providing a thorough understandingof various concepts. However, it will be apparent to those skilled inthe art that these concepts may be practiced without these specificdetails. In some instances, well known structures and components areshown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring such concepts.

Several aspects of telecommunication systems will now be presented withreference to various apparatus and methods. These apparatus and methodswill be described in the following detailed description and illustratedin the accompanying drawings by various blocks, components, circuits,processes, algorithms, etc. (collectively referred to as “elements”).These elements may be implemented using electronic hardware, computersoftware, or any combination thereof. Whether such elements areimplemented as hardware or software depends upon the particularapplication and design constraints imposed on the overall system.

By way of example, an element, or any portion of an element, or anycombination of elements may be implemented as a “processing system” thatincludes one or more processors. Examples of processors includemicroprocessors, microcontrollers, graphics processing units (GPUs),central processing units (CPUs), application processors, digital signalprocessors (DSPs), reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors,systems on a chip (SoC), baseband processors, field programmable gatearrays (FPGAs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), state machines, gatedlogic, discrete hardware circuits, and other suitable hardwareconfigured to perform the various functionality described throughoutthis disclosure. One or more processors in the processing system mayexecute software. Software shall be construed broadly to meaninstructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program code,programs, subprograms, software components, applications, softwareapplications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects,executables, threads of execution, procedures, functions, etc., whetherreferred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardwaredescription language, or otherwise.

Accordingly, in one or more example embodiments, the functions describedmay be implemented in hardware, software, or any combination thereof. Ifimplemented in software, the functions may be stored on or encoded asone or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium.Computer-readable media includes computer storage media. Storage mediamay be any available media that can be accessed by a computer. By way ofexample, and not limitation, such computer-readable media can comprise arandom-access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an electricallyerasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), optical disk storage, magnetic diskstorage, other magnetic storage devices, combinations of theaforementioned types of computer-readable media, or any other mediumthat can be used to store computer executable code in the form ofinstructions or data structures that can be accessed by a computer.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communicationssystem and an access network 100. The wireless communications system(also referred to as a wireless wide area network (WWAN)) includes basestations 102, UEs 104, an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) 160, and anothercore network 190 (e.g., a 5G Core (5GC)). The base stations 102 mayinclude macrocells (high power cellular base station) and/or small cells(low power cellular base station). The macrocells include base stations.The small cells include femtocells, picocells, and microcells.

The base stations 102 configured for 4G LTE (collectively referred to asEvolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) TerrestrialRadio Access Network (E-UTRAN)) may interface with the EPC 160 throughbackhaul links 132 (e.g., S1 interface). The base stations 102configured for 5G NR (collectively referred to as Next Generation RAN(NG-RAN)) may interface with core network 190 through backhaul links184. In addition to other functions, the base stations 102 may performone or more of the following functions: transfer of user data, radiochannel ciphering and deciphering, integrity protection, headercompression, mobility control functions (e.g., handover, dualconnectivity), inter-cell interference coordination, connection setupand release, load balancing, distribution for non-access stratum (NAS)messages, NAS node selection, synchronization, radio access network(RAN) sharing, multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS), subscriberand equipment trace, RAN information management (RIM), paging,positioning, and delivery of warning messages. The base stations 102 maycommunicate directly or indirectly (e.g., through the EPC 160 or corenetwork 190) with each other over backhaul links 134 (e.g., X2interface). The backhaul links 134 may be wired or wireless.

The base stations 102 may wirelessly communicate with the UEs 104. Eachof the base stations 102 may provide communication coverage for arespective geographic coverage area 110. There may be overlappinggeographic coverage areas 110. For example, the small cell 102′ may havea coverage area 110′ that overlaps the coverage area 110 of one or moremacro base stations 102. A network that includes both small cell andmacrocells may be known as a heterogeneous network. A heterogeneousnetwork may also include Home Evolved Node Bs (eNBs) (HeNBs), which mayprovide service to a restricted group known as a closed subscriber group(CSG). The communication links 120 between the base stations 102 and theUEs 104 may include uplink (UL) (also referred to as reverse link)transmissions from a UE 104 to a base station 102 and/or downlink (DL)(also referred to as forward link) transmissions from a base station 102to a UE 104. The communication links 120 may use multiple-input andmultiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology, including spatialmultiplexing, beamforming, and/or transmit diversity. The communicationlinks may be through one or more carriers. The base stations 102/UEs 104may use spectrum up to Y MHz (e.g., 5, 10, 15, 20, 100, 400, etc. MHz)bandwidth per carrier allocated in a carrier aggregation of up to atotal of Yx MHz (x component carriers) used for transmission in eachdirection. The carriers may or may not be adjacent to each other.Allocation of carriers may be asymmetric with respect to DL and UL(e.g., more or fewer carriers may be allocated for DL than for UL). Thecomponent carriers may include a primary component carrier and one ormore secondary component carriers. A primary component carrier may bereferred to as a primary cell (PCell) and a secondary component carriermay be referred to as a secondary cell (SCell).

Certain UEs 104 may communicate with each other using device-to-device(D2D) communication link 158. The D2D communication link 158 may use theDL/UL WWAN spectrum. The D2D communication link 158 may use one or moresidelink channels, such as a physical sidelink broadcast channel(PSBCH), a physical sidelink discovery channel (PSDCH), a physicalsidelink shared channel (PSSCH), and a physical sidelink control channel(PSCCH). D2D communication may be through a variety of wireless D2Dcommunications systems, such as for example, FlashLinQ, WiMedia,Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wi-Fi based on the IEEE 802.11 standard, LTE, or NR.

The wireless communications system may further include a Wi-Fi accesspoint (AP) 150 in communication with Wi-Fi stations (STAs) 152 viacommunication links 154 in a 5 GHz unlicensed frequency spectrum. Whencommunicating in an unlicensed frequency spectrum, the STAs 152/AP 150may perform a clear channel assessment (CCA) prior to communicating inorder to determine whether the channel is available.

The small cell 102′ may operate in a licensed and/or an unlicensedfrequency spectrum. When operating in an unlicensed frequency spectrum,the small cell 102′ may employ NR and use the same 5 GHz unlicensedfrequency spectrum as used by the Wi-Fi AP 150. The small cell 102′,employing NR in an unlicensed frequency spectrum, may boost coverage toand/or increase capacity of the access network.

A base station 102, whether a small cell 102′ or a large cell (e.g.,macro base station), may include an eNB, gNodeB (gNB), or another typeof base station. Some base stations, such as gNB 180 may operate in atraditional sub 6 GHz spectrum, in millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies,and/or near mmW frequencies in communication with the UE 104. When thegNB 180 operates in mmW or near mmW frequencies, the gNB 180 may bereferred to as an mmW base station. Extremely high frequency (EHF) ispart of the RF in the electromagnetic spectrum. EHF has a range of 30GHz to 300 GHz and a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 10 millimeters.Radio waves in the band may be referred to as a millimeter wave. NearmmW may extend down to a frequency of 3 GHz with a wavelength of 100millimeters. The super high frequency (SHF) band extends between 3 GHzand 30 GHz, also referred to as centimeter wave. Communications usingthe mmW/near mmW radio frequency band (e.g., 3 GHz-300 GHz) hasextremely high path loss and a short range. The mmW base station 180 mayutilize beamforming 182 with the UE 104 to compensate for the extremelyhigh path loss and short range.

The base station 180 may transmit a beamformed signal to the UE 104 inone or more transmit directions 182′. The UE 104 may receive thebeamformed signal from the base station 180 in one or more receivedirections 182″. The UE 104 may also transmit a beamformed signal to thebase station 180 in one or more transmit directions. The base station180 may receive the beamformed signal from the UE 104 in one or morereceive directions. The base station 180/UE 104 may perform beamtraining to determine the best receive and transmit directions for eachof the base station 180/UE 104. The transmit and receive directions forthe base station 180 may or may not be the same. The transmit andreceive directions for the UE 104 may or may not be the same.

The EPC 160 may include a Mobility Management Entity (MME) 162, otherMMES 164, a Serving Gateway 166, a Multimedia Broadcast MulticastService (MBMS) Gateway 168, a Broadcast Multicast Service Center (BM-SC)170, and a Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway 172. The MME 162 may be incommunication with a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) 174. The MME 162 isthe control node that processes the signaling between the UEs 104 andthe EPC 160. Generally, the MME 162 provides bearer and connectionmanagement. All user Internet protocol (IP) packets are transferredthrough the Serving Gateway 166, which itself is connected to the PDNGateway 172. The PDN Gateway 172 provides UE IP address allocation aswell as other functions. The PDN Gateway 172 and the BM-SC 170 areconnected to the IP Services 176. The IP Services 176 may include theInternet, an intranet, an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a PS StreamingService, and/or other IP services. The BM-SC 170 may provide functionsfor MBMS user service provisioning and delivery. The BM-SC 170 may serveas an entry point for content provider MBMS transmission, may be used toauthorize and initiate MBMS Bearer Services within a public land mobilenetwork (PLMN), and may be used to schedule MBMS transmissions. The MBMSGateway 168 may be used to distribute MBMS traffic to the base stations102 belonging to a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN)area broadcasting a particular service, and may be responsible forsession management (start/stop) and for collecting eMBMS relatedcharging information.

The core network 190 may include a Access and Mobility ManagementFunction (AMF) 192, other AMFs 193, a Session Management Function (SMF)194, and a User Plane Function (UPF) 195. The AMF 192 may be incommunication with a Unified Data Management (UDM) 196. The AMF 192 isthe control node that processes the signaling between the UEs 104 andthe core network 190. Generally, the AMF 192 provides QoS flow andsession management. All user Internet protocol (IP) packets aretransferred through the UPF 195. The UPF 195 provides UE IP addressallocation as well as other functions. The UPF 195 is connected to theIP Services 197. The IP Services 197 may include the Internet, anintranet, an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a PS Streaming Service,and/or other IP services.

The base station may also be referred to as a gNB, Node B, evolved NodeB (eNB), an access point, a base transceiver station, a radio basestation, a radio transceiver, a transceiver function, a basic serviceset (BSS), an extended service set (ESS), a transmit reception point(TRP), or some other suitable terminology. The base station 102 providesan access point to the EPC 160 or core network 190 for a UE 104.Examples of UEs 104 include a cellular phone, a smart phone, a sessioninitiation protocol (SIP) phone, a laptop, a personal digital assistant(PDA), a satellite radio, a global positioning system, a multimediadevice, a video device, a digital audio player (e.g., MP3 player), acamera, a game console, a tablet, a smart device, a wearable device, avehicle, an electric meter, a gas pump, a large or small kitchenappliance, a healthcare device, an implant, a sensor/actuator, adisplay, or any other similar functioning device. Some of the UEs 104may be referred to as IoT devices (e.g., parking meter, gas pump,toaster, vehicles, heart monitor, etc.). The UE 104 may also be referredto as a station, a mobile station, a subscriber station, a mobile unit,a subscriber unit, a wireless unit, a remote unit, a mobile device, awireless device, a wireless communications device, a remote device, amobile subscriber station, an access terminal, a mobile terminal, awireless terminal, a remote terminal, a handset, a user agent, a mobileclient, a client, or some other suitable terminology.

Referring again to FIG. 1, in certain aspects, the UE 104 having partialcoherent antenna ports may comprise a transmission power component 198configured to determine a transmission power for a data transmissionfrom at least one of the antenna port(s), including aspects described inconnection with the examples presented herein. Although the followingdescription may be focused on 5G NR, the concepts described herein maybe applicable to other similar areas, such as LTE, LTE-A, CDMA, GSM, andother wireless technologies.

FIG. 2A is a diagram 200 illustrating an example of a DL subframe withina 5G/NR frame structure. FIG. 2B is a diagram 230 illustrating anexample of channels within a DL subframe. FIG. 2C is a diagram 250illustrating an example of an UL subframe within a 5G/NR framestructure. FIG. 2D is a diagram 280 illustrating an example of channelswithin an UL subframe. The 5G/NR frame structure may be FDD in which fora particular set of subcarriers (carrier system bandwidth), subframeswithin the set of subcarriers are dedicated for either DL or

UL, or may be TDD in which for a particular set of subcarriers (carriersystem bandwidth), subframes within the set of subcarriers are dedicatedfor both DL and UL. In the examples provided by FIGS. 2A, 2C, the 5G/NRframe structure is assumed to be TDD, with subframe 4 a DL subframe andsubframe 7 an UL subframe. While subframe 4 is illustrated as providingjust DL and subframe 7 is illustrated as providing just UL, anyparticular subframe may be split into different subsets that provideboth UL and DL. Note that the description infra applies also to a 5G/NRframe structure that is FDD.

Other wireless communication technologies may have a different framestructure and/or different channels. A frame (10 ms) may be divided into10 equally sized subframes (1 ms). Each subframe may include one or moretime slots. Each slot may include 7 or 14 symbols, depending on the slotconfiguration. For slot configuration 0, each slot may include 14symbols, and for slot configuration 1, each slot may include 7 symbols.The number of slots within a subframe is based on the slot configurationand the numerology. For slot configuration 0, different numerologies 0to 5 allow for 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 slots, respectively, per subframe.For slot configuration 1, different numerologies 0 to 2 allow for 2, 4,and 8 slots, respectively, per subframe. The subcarrier spacing andsymbol length/duration are a function of the numerology. The subcarrierspacing may be equal to 2^(μ)*15 kKz, where μ is the numerology 0-5. Thesymbol length/duration is inversely related to the subcarrier spacing.FIGS. 2A, 2C provide an example of slot configuration 1 with 7 symbolsper slot and numerology 0 with 2 slots per subframe. The subcarrierspacing is 15 kHz and symbol duration is approximately 66.7 μs.

A resource grid may be used to represent the frame structure. Each timeslot includes a resource block (RB) (also referred to as physical RBs(PRBs)) that extends 12 consecutive subcarriers. The resource grid isdivided into multiple resource elements (REs). The number of bitscarried by each RE depends on the modulation scheme.

As illustrated in FIG. 2A, some of the REs carry reference (pilot)signals (RS) for the UE (indicated as R). The RS may includedemodulation RS (DM-RS) and channel state information reference signals(CSI-RS) for channel estimation at the UE. The RS may also include beammeasurement RS (BRS), beam refinement RS (BRRS), and phase tracking RS(PT-RS).

FIG. 2B illustrates an example of various channels within a DL subframeof a frame. The physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) iswithin symbol 0 of slot 0, and carries a control format indicator (CFI)that indicates whether the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)occupies 1, 2, or 3 symbols (FIG. 2B illustrates a PDCCH that occupies 3symbols). The PDCCH carries downlink control information (DCI) withinone or more control channel elements (CCEs), each CCE including nine REgroups (REGs), each REG including four consecutive REs in an OFDMsymbol. A UE may be configured with a UE-specific enhanced PDCCH(ePDCCH) that also carries DCI. The ePDCCH may have 2, 4, or 8 RB pairs(FIG. 2B shows two RB pairs, each subset including one RB pair). Thephysical hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) (HARQ) indicator channel(PHICH) is also within symbol 0 of slot 0 and carries the HARQ indicator(HI) that indicates HARQ acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK)feedback based on the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). Theprimary synchronization channel (PSCH) may be within symbol 6 of slot 0within subframes 0 and 5 of a frame. The PSCH carries a primarysynchronization signal (PSS) that is used by a UE 104 to determinesubframe/symbol timing and a physical layer identity. The secondarysynchronization channel (SSCH) may be within symbol 5 of slot 0 withinsubframes 0 and 5 of a frame. The SSCH carries a secondarysynchronization signal (SSS) that is used by a UE to determine aphysical layer cell identity group number and radio frame timing. Basedon the physical layer identity and the physical layer cell identitygroup number, the UE can determine a physical cell identifier (PCI).Based on the PCI, the UE can determine the locations of theaforementioned DL-RS. The physical broadcast channel (PBCH), whichcarries a master information block (MIB), may be logically grouped withthe PSCH and SSCH to form a synchronization signal (SS)/PBCH block. TheMIB provides a number of RBs in the DL system bandwidth, a PHICHconfiguration, and a system frame number (SFN). The physical downlinkshared channel (PDSCH) carries user data, broadcast system informationnot transmitted through the PBCH such as system information blocks(SIBs), and paging messages.

As illustrated in FIG. 2C, some of the REs carry demodulation referencesignals (DM-RS) for channel estimation at the base station. The UE mayadditionally transmit sounding reference signals (SRS) in the lastsymbol of a subframe. The SRS may have a comb structure, and a UE maytransmit SRS on one of the combs. The SRS may be used by a base stationfor channel quality estimation to enable frequency-dependent schedulingon the UL.

FIG. 2D illustrates an example of various channels within an UL subframeof a frame. A physical random access channel (PRACH) may be within oneor more subframes within a frame based on the PRACH configuration. ThePRACH may include six consecutive RB pairs within a subframe. The PRACHallows the UE to perform initial system access and achieve ULsynchronization. A physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) may belocated on edges of the UL system bandwidth. The PUCCH carries uplinkcontrol information (UCI), such as scheduling requests, a channelquality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rankindicator (RI), and HARQ ACK/NACK feedback. The PUSCH carries data, andmay additionally be used to carry a buffer status report (BSR), a powerheadroom report (PHR), and/or UCI.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a base station 310 in communication with aUE 350 in an access network. In the DL, IP packets from the EPC 160 maybe provided to a controller/processor 375. The controller/processor 375implements layer 3 and layer 2 functionality. Layer 3 includes a radioresource control (RRC) layer, and layer 2 includes a packet dataconvergence protocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, anda medium access control (MAC) layer. The controller/processor 375provides RRC layer functionality associated with broadcasting of systeminformation (e.g., MIB, SIBs), RRC connection control (e.g., RRCconnection paging, RRC connection establishment, RRC connectionmodification, and RRC connection release), inter radio access technology(RAT) mobility, and measurement configuration for UE measurementreporting; PDCP layer functionality associated with headercompression/decompression, security (ciphering, deciphering, integrityprotection, integrity verification), and handover support functions; RLClayer functionality associated with the transfer of upper layer packetdata units (PDUs), error correction through ARQ, concatenation,segmentation, and reassembly of RLC service data units (SDUs),re-segmentation of RLC data PDUs, and reordering of RLC data PDUs; andMAC layer functionality associated with mapping between logical channelsand transport channels, multiplexing of MAC SDUs onto transport blocks(TBs), demultiplexing of MAC SDUs from TBs, scheduling informationreporting, error correction through HARQ, priority handling, and logicalchannel prioritization.

The transmit (TX) processor 316 and the receive (RX) processor 370implement layer 1 functionality associated with various signalprocessing functions. Layer 1, which includes a physical (PHY) layer,may include error detection on the transport channels, forward errorcorrection (FEC) coding/decoding of the transport channels,interleaving, rate matching, mapping onto physical channels,modulation/demodulation of physical channels, and MIMO antennaprocessing. The TX processor 316 handles mapping to signalconstellations based on various modulation schemes (e.g., binaryphase-shift keying (BPSK), quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK),M-phase-shift keying (M-PSK), M-quadrature amplitude modulation(M-QAM)). The coded and modulated symbols may then be split intoparallel streams. Each stream may then be mapped to an OFDM subcarrier,multiplexed with a reference signal (e.g., pilot) in the time and/orfrequency domain, and then combined together using an Inverse FastFourier Transform (IFFT) to produce a physical channel carrying a timedomain OFDM symbol stream. The OFDM stream is spatially precoded toproduce multiple spatial streams. Channel estimates from a channelestimator 374 may be used to determine the coding and modulation scheme,as well as for spatial processing. The channel estimate may be derivedfrom a reference signal and/or channel condition feedback transmitted bythe UE 350. Each spatial stream may then be provided to a differentantenna 320 via a separate transmitter 318TX. Each transmitter 318TX maymodulate an RF carrier with a respective spatial stream fortransmission.

At the UE 350, each receiver 354RX receives a signal through itsrespective antenna 352. Each receiver 354RX recovers informationmodulated onto an RF carrier and provides the information to the receive(RX) processor 356. The TX processor 368 and the RX processor 356implement layer 1 functionality associated with various signalprocessing functions. The RX processor 356 may perform spatialprocessing on the information to recover any spatial streams destinedfor the UE 350. If multiple spatial streams are destined for the UE 350,they may be combined by the RX processor 356 into a single OFDM symbolstream. The RX processor 356 then converts the OFDM symbol stream fromthe time-domain to the frequency domain using a Fast Fourier Transform(FFT). The frequency domain signal comprises a separate OFDM symbolstream for each subcarrier of the OFDM signal. The symbols on eachsubcarrier, and the reference signal, are recovered and demodulated bydetermining the most likely signal constellation points transmitted bythe base station 310. These soft decisions may be based on channelestimates computed by the channel estimator 358. The soft decisions arethen decoded and deinterleaved to recover the data and control signalsthat were originally transmitted by the base station 310 on the physicalchannel. The data and control signals are then provided to thecontroller/processor 359, which implements layer 3 and layer 2functionality.

The controller/processor 359 can be associated with a memory 360 thatstores program codes and data. The memory 360 may be referred to as acomputer-readable medium. In the UL, the controller/processor 359provides demultiplexing between transport and logical channels, packetreassembly, deciphering, header decompression, and control signalprocessing to recover IP packets from the EPC 160. Thecontroller/processor 359 is also responsible for error detection usingan ACK and/or NACK protocol to support HARQ operations.

Similar to the functionality described in connection with the DLtransmission by the base station 310, the controller/processor 359provides RRC layer functionality associated with system information(e.g., MIB, SIBs) acquisition, RRC connections, and measurementreporting; PDCP layer functionality associated with headercompression/decompression, and security (ciphering, deciphering,integrity protection, integrity verification); RLC layer functionalityassociated with the transfer of upper layer PDUs, error correctionthrough ARQ, concatenation, segmentation, and reassembly of RLC SDUs,re-segmentation of RLC data PDUs, and reordering of RLC data PDUs; andMAC layer functionality associated with mapping between logical channelsand transport channels, multiplexing of MAC SDUs onto TBs,demultiplexing of MAC SDUs from TBs, scheduling information reporting,error correction through HARQ, priority handling, and logical channelprioritization.

Channel estimates derived by a channel estimator 358 from a referencesignal or feedback transmitted by the base station 310 may be used bythe TX processor 368 to select the appropriate coding and modulationschemes, and to facilitate spatial processing. The spatial streamsgenerated by the TX processor 368 may be provided to different antenna352 via separate transmitters 354TX. Each transmitter 354TX may modulatean RF carrier with a respective spatial stream for transmission.

The UL transmission is processed at the base station 310 in a mannersimilar to that described in connection with the receiver function atthe UE 350. Each receiver 318RX receives a signal through its respectiveantenna 320. Each receiver 318RX recovers information modulated onto anRF carrier and provides the information to a RX processor 370.

The controller/processor 375 can be associated with a memory 376 thatstores program codes and data. The memory 376 may be referred to as acomputer-readable medium. In the UL, the controller/processor 375provides demultiplexing between transport and logical channels, packetreassembly, deciphering, header decompression, control signal processingto recover IP packets from the UE 350. IP packets from thecontroller/processor 375 may be provided to the EPC 160. Thecontroller/processor 375 is also responsible for error detection usingan ACK and/or NACK protocol to support HARQ operations.

At least one of the TX processor 368, the RX processor 356, and thecontroller/processor 359 may be configured to perform aspects inconnection with 198 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 illustrates an example of a wireless communication device 402having non-coherent antennas. In this example, the wirelesscommunication device 402 cannot maintain phase coherence between a firstantenna (Ant 0) and a second antenna (Ant 1). The antennas may havedifferent precoder values, as shown. For example, Ant 0 may beassociated with a precoder value of 1/√2 while Ant 1 is associated witha precoder value of 0. FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a wirelesscommunication device 504 having partial coherent antennas. For example,a first set of antennas 506 is coherent. Thus, Ant 0 and Ant 1 in set506 are capable of maintaining a relative phase difference between eachother over time. Similarly, a second set of antennas 508 is coherent,with Ant 2 and Ant 3 being capable of maintaining a relative phasedifference between each other over time. However, the first set ofcoherent antennas 506 is non-coherent to the second set of coherentantennas 508. For example, the wireless communication device 504 cannotmaintain phase coherence between Ant 0 in set 506 and Ant 2 in set 508,and similarly cannot maintain phase coherence between Ant 1 in set 506and Ant 3 in set 508. In other words, the wireless communication devicecan maintain phase coherence between antennas included in each of twoantenna groups (e.g., first antenna set 506 and second antenna set 508),but cannot maintain phase coherence between the two antenna groups.Therefore, the wireless communication device 504 may be described asbeing capable of achieving partial coherence among antenna ports of thewireless communication device or as having partial coherent antennas.The non-coherent antenna sets may be associated with different precodervalues, as shown in FIG. 5. For example, Ant 0 and Ant 1 in the firstcoherent set 506 may be associated with a precoder value of ½ while Ant2 and Ant 3 in the second coherent set 508 may be associated with aprecoder value of 0. The number of antennas shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 aremerely examples, a wireless communication device may include any numberof sets of coherent antennas that are non-coherent with each other,whereas FIG. 5 only illustrates two sets of coherent antennas. Further,each coherent set may include any number of coherent antennas.

In some wireless networks (e.g., an LTE network), a wirelesscommunication device may be assumed to be capable of achieving fullcoherence. In such a case, a MIMO scheme, associated transmitting asignal using the multiple antennas of the wireless communication device,may be designed under the assumption of full coherence. Wirelesscommunication (e.g., a 5G/NR communication) involving partial coherencemay have unique challenges for MIMO communication. For example,limitations may be placed on transmission power for a UE with partialcoherent antennas that restrict the UE from transmitting with fulltransmit power. A UE may determine a transmit power for datatransmission, e.g., for transmitting PUSCH, based on uplink powercontrol signaling received from the base station. The transmit power isa power level without power scaling by the UE to reduce the transmitpower. For example, uplink power control may determine the average powerover an OFDM symbol in which the physical channel is transmitted by theUE.

As part of power control at the UE, the UE may further scale thetransmit power that it determined based on the power control signalingfrom the base station. The UE may first scale the determined transmitpower by the ratio of the number of antenna ports with a non-zero PUSCHtransmission to the number of configured antenna ports for thetransmission scheme. The resulting scaled power may then be splitequally across the antenna ports on which the non-zero PUSCH istransmitted. For example, the wireless communication device 504 in FIG.5 is illustrated as having four configured antenna ports (Ant 0, Ant 1,Ant 2, Ant 3), two of the four antenna ports having non-zero PUSCH (Ant0, Ant 1). When the wireless communication device determines a transmitpower of P based on power control signaling from a base station, thetransmit power P would be scaled by the ratio of 2 to 4, e.g., ½. Then,the scaled transmit power, P/2, would be split evenly between Ant 0 andAnt 1. Therefore, the two antenna ports, Ant 0 and Ant 1, would eachtransmit the PUSCH with a transmit power of P/4. The actual transmitpower used by the UE would total (P/4+P/4=P/2).

FIG. 6A illustrates an example of aspects that may be employed in uplinkphysical channel processing at a UE. A baseband signal representing thePUSCH may be generated by scrambling 602, modulation 604 of scrambledbits to generate complex-valued symbols, mapping 606 of thecomplex-valued modulation symbols onto one or more transmission layers,precoding 610 of the one or more layers of the complex-valued symbols,mapping 612 of precoded complex-valued symbols to resource elements, andgeneration 614 of complex-valued time-domain Cyclic Prefix OrthogonalFrequency Division Multiplexing (CP-OFDM) signal for each antenna port.In another example, the uplink transmission may be based on DiscreteFourier Transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM), in which a transformprecoder may be applied after the layer mapper 606 and prior to theprecoding 610 on each layer. Thus, the transform precoder 608 may beenabled or disabled based on the signal being generated. For precoding610, a precoder may receive input from a layer mapper 606 and generate ablock of vectors to be mapped onto resource elements. Precoding 610 maybe performed for spatial multiplexing, e.g., based on the layers ontowhich the codewords are mapped as part of layer mapping. Precoding 610for spatial multiplexing may be based on a precoding matrix. Theprecoding matrix may be given by a table entry or a codebook. A matrixmay be selected by the UE based on a number of antenna ports, a codebookindex, a number of mapped layers, etc. A MIMO codebook may take intoaccount sets of non-coherent antenna ports and may provide one set ofantenna ports with a non-zero precoder value. The other antenna portset(s) may have a zero precoder value. Thus, the codebook preventssimultaneous transmission of the PUSCH from non-coherent antennas. FIG.7A illustrates an example codebook matrix 702 that prevents suchsimultaneous transmission between the non-coherent antenna ports in theexample of FIG. 5. In FIG. 7A, Ant 2 and Ant 3 will have a precodervalue of 0 and will not transmit PUSCH, while Ant 0 and Ant 1 will havea non-zero precoder value of ½ for the PUSCH transmission. Similarly,the matrix 706 in FIG. 7C gives Ant 2 and Ant 3 a precoder value of 0,while Ant 0 and Ant 1 have a non-zero precoder value for the PUSCHtransmission. Thus, the matrices in FIGS. 7A and 7C avoid simultaneoustransmission from the non-coherent antenna sets.

Aspects presented herein provide ways in which the transmission power ofthe UE can be utilized more effectively. In one example, the UE may useits potential transmission power more effectively through changes in theway that the UE performs power control. In another example, the UE mayuse its potential transmission power more effectively through anadjusted codebook design and/or diversity scheme.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example communication flow 800 between a UE 802and a base station 804 that may involve aspects for improvingtransmission power at the UE. The UE 802 may comprise non-coherentantenna ports, e.g., as described in connection with FIG. 4, or partialcoherent antenna ports, e.g., as described in connection with FIG. 5.The UE 802 may receive a power control signal 803 from the base station.Based on information received in the power control signal 803, the UEmay determine a transmit power, P, at 805. The transmit power, P, may bedetermined by the UE, at 805, to be a minimum of a maximum power thatthe UE can transmit, e.g. P_(max), and a second transmission powerscheduled by the base station, e.g., P_(schedule), via power controlsignaling. This determination may be expressed as, e.g., P=min {P_(max),P_(schedule)}.

In the first example, the UE may use a codebook that avoids simultaneoustransmission from non-coherent antenna ports. Thus, in the exampleillustrated in FIG. 5, the UE may use a codebook that limits non-zeroPUSCH transmission to either the first coherent antenna set 506 or thesecond coherent antenna set 508, but that does not provide forsimultaneous, non-zero PUSCH transmission from both sets of antennasthat are non-coherent with each other. Thus, the UE may apply a codebookwith matrix values similar to the example matrix 702, 706 in FIGS. 7Aand 7C. The UE may split a non-scaled transmit power, e.g., P, acrossthe antenna ports on which the non-zero PUSCH is transmitted, at 809. Inthe example of FIG. 5, the transmit power per antenna port would be P/2for Ant 0 and P/2 for Ant 1. Thus, the total transmit power (P/2+P/2)for the antenna ports having a non-zero PUSCH transmission would beequal to the full transmit power P, e.g., the full transmit powerdetermined by the UE based on the power control signaling from the basestation. Similarly, for the example in FIG. 1, with a non-zero precoderapplied to Ant 0 and a zero precoder applied to Ant 1, the transmitpower for Ant 0 would be P/1=P. Thus, the total actual transmit power bythe UE is P, the full, determined transmit power, e.g., without scalingby the ratio of the number of antenna ports with a non-zero PUSCHtransmission to the number of configured antenna ports for thetransmission scheme.

In the second example, the UE may improve the use of its transmissionpower through simultaneous transmission of data using non-coherentantennas. The UE may use a different transmit scheme that enablesnon-coherent antenna sets to transmit PUSCH simultaneously. For example,the UE may use a MIMO codebook, at 811, that provides non-zero valuesfor antennas that are non-coherent with each other, e.g., antenna(s) ina first set that is non-coherent with antenna(s) in a second set. FIGS.7B and 7D illustrate example matrixes that provide non-zero values forsimultaneous transmission between the non-coherent antennas in theexample of FIG. 5. The four antennas of FIG. 5 will simultaneouslytransmit PUSCH using the matrix in either FIG. 7B or 7D. The UE maysplit the transmission power among the antenna ports, as illustrated at809. By using all four antennas to transmit the PUSCH, the transmitpower may be split evenly among the 4 antennas, with each antenna porttransmitting the PUSCH using a power P/4. Therefore, the total transmitpower actually used for the transmission at the four antenna ports(e.g., P/4+P/4+P/4+P/4) will be equal to the full transmit power, P,determined by the UE at 805 based on the power control signaling fromthe base station. Similarly, for the example in FIG. 4, the UE maytransmit using both Ant 0 and Ant 1, with each antenna port using atransmission power of P/2.

As the relative phase difference between the non-coherent antenna setsmay vary, the UE may apply a diversity scheme among the non-coherentsets of antennas, at 813. FIG. 6B illustrates an example that may beemployed at a UE to generate a baseband signal representing PUSCH. InFIG. 6B, the UE may apply a diversity scheme at 611. While the diversityscheme is illustrated after precoding 610, the diversity scheme may alsobe applied prior to precoding, in other examples. In the example in FIG.5, the diversity scheme would be applied among the first antenna set 506and the second antenna set 508. In another example, the UE may apply anopen-loop, non-transparent diversity scheme among the first antenna set506 and the second antenna set 508. Among other examples, an open-loop,non-transparent MIMO scheme may include an open-loop diversity schemethat uses space frequency block coding (SFBC), space-time block coding(STBC), etc.

In an example when the UE is to transmit data bits x₀ and x₁ (e.g., [x₀,x₁]) on a first frequency tone (e.g., tone 0) and a second frequencytone (e.g., tone 1), Table 1 illustrates an example of SFBC acrossantenna sets 506, 508 from FIG. 5.

TABLE 1 SFBC Tone 0 Tone 1 Ant 0 x₀ x₁ Ant 1 x₀ x₁ Ant 2 x₁* x₀* Ant 3x₁* x₀*

In this example, x₁* indicates a complex conjugate of data bit x₁, andx₀* indicates a complex conjugate of data bit x₀. The UE may applyprecoding before or after applying the SFBC diversity scheme. Similar tothis SFBC example, the diversity scheme may involve STBC. As an example,STBC may comprise similar aspects applied for frequency Tone 0 andfrequency Tone 1 in SFBC being applied to OFDM symbol 0 and OFDMsymbol 1. Thus, SFBC maps data symbols x₀ and x₁ into two frequencytones, whereas STBC would map the two data symbols x₀ and x₁ into twoOFDM symbols.

In another example, the UE may apply a transparent diversity scheme.Among other examples, a transparent MIMO scheme may include small delayCyclic Delay Diversity (CDD), etc. The transparent diversity scheme maybe applied across antenna sets where phase coherence cannot bemaintained. For a data stream x₀, x₁, x₂, . . . , and the two antennagroups 506, 508 illustrated in FIG. 5, the UE may apply a precodermatrix

$\quad\begin{bmatrix}{g\; 0} \\{g\; 1} \\{g\; 2} \\{g\; 3}\end{bmatrix}$and apply small delay CDD to antenna set 2 508, e.g., Ant 2 and Ant 3.The precoder matrix and small diversity scheme may be performed in anyorder, e.g., with the precoding applied prior to the diversity scheme orthe precoder matrix applied after the diversity scheme. After precodingand application of the small delay CDD, the signal from the fourantennas (Ant 0, Ant 1, Ant 2, Ant 3) is shown in Table 2.

TABLE 2 Tone 0 Tone 1 Tone 2 Tone 3 Ant 0 g₀x₀ g₀x₁ g₀x₂ g₀x₃ Ant 1 g₁x₀g₁x₁ g₁x₂ g₁x₃ Ant 2 g₂x₀ g₂x₁e^(jθ) g₂x₂e^(2jθ) g₂x₃e^(3jθ) Ant 3 g₃x₀g₃x₁e^(jθ) g₃x₂e^(2jθ) g₃x₃e^(3jθ)

In this example, the parameters g₀, g₁, g₂, g₃ correspond to thedifferent pre-coder coefficients (e.g., [g₀ g₁] is the precoder used forantenna 0 and antenna 1, and [g₂g₃] is the precoder used for antenna 2and antenna 3), e corresponds to the base of the exponential function,e.g., Euler's number, j corresponds to the square root of −1 (i.e., theimaginary unit), and θ corresponds to a phase shift applied in the smalldelay CDD. Thus, the signal in one antenna will have a small phase shiftin the frequency domain, e^(jθ), relative to a signal of another antennain the frequency domain. A phase shift applied in the frequency domainis equivalent to a cyclic shift applied in a time domain.

In another example, in which the small delay CDD is applied prior to theprecoder for a given data stream x₀, x₁, x₂, . . . , the UE may applySCDD as follows:

-   -   Ant 0: x₀, x₁, x₂, . . . ,    -   Ant 1: x₀, x₁, x₂, . . . ,    -   Ant 2: x₀, x₁e^(jθ), x₂e^(2jθ), . . .    -   Ant 3: x₀, x₁e^(jθ), x₂e^(2jθ), . . .

Then, the precoder matrix may be applied to the data stream having thediversity scheme already applied.

The UE may apply the change in power control or the codebook that allowsfor simultaneous transmission from non-coherent antenna ports fordifferent numbers and/or types of antenna ports. As illustrated at 807,the UE may determine at least one antenna port having non-zero data fortransmission. The determination at 807 may be based on a precoderindicated to the UE by the base station 804, e.g., via downlink controlsignaling 801. When the UE determines multiple antenna ports having thenon-zero data for transmission, at 819, the UE may split thetransmission power, e.g., P among the multiple antenna ports withoutscaling the transmission power. In an example, the UE may limitsimultaneous transmission to coherent antenna ports. In an example whenthe UE determines that the at least one antenna port includesdetermining multiple, non-coherent antenna ports having the non-zerodata for transmission, at 809, the UE may split the transmission power,P, across the multiple, non-coherent antenna ports having the non-zerodata for transmission.

The UE may also apply precoding for the data transmission, at 811, basedon a codebook for simultaneous transmission from the multiple,non-coherent antenna ports. At 813, the UE may further apply a diversityscheme among the first set of coherent antenna ports and the second setof coherent antenna ports. The at least one antenna port having thenon-zero data for transmission may be determined based at least in parton a precoder indicated to the UE by the base station. In an example, asingle antenna port may be determined as having the non-zero data fortransmission, and the data transmission is transmitted from the singleantenna port using the transmission power, P, determined by the UE.

As illustrated at 815, the UE may transmit the PUSCH to the base station804 using the antenna port(s) after the PUSCH baseband signal isgenerated.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart 900 of a method of wireless communication. Themethod may be performed by a UE (e.g., UE 104, 350, 802; the apparatus1002, 1002′; the processing system 1114, which may include the memory360 and which may be the entire UE 350 or a component of the UE 350,such as the TX processor 368, the RX processor 356, and/or thecontroller/processor 359) in wireless communication with a base station(e.g., base station 102, 180, 310, 804, 1050). The UE may have a firstantenna port that is non-coherent to a second antenna port, e.g., suchas described in connection with FIGS. 4 and 5. As in FIG. 5, the UE maycomprise partial coherent antenna ports, e.g., with the first antennaport comprised in a first set of coherent antenna ports and the secondantenna port comprised in a second set of coherent antenna ports,wherein the first set of coherent antenna ports is non-coherent to thesecond set of coherent antenna ports.

At 902, the UE determines a transmission power for a data transmissionfrom the UE to a base station based at least in part on power controlsignaling from the base station. For example, transmission powercomponent 1008 of apparatus 1002 may determine the transmission power.The transmission power, P, may be determined to be a minimum of amaximum power that the UE can transmit, e.g. P_(max), and a secondtransmission power scheduled by the base station, e.g., P_(schedule),via power control signaling. This determination may be expressed as,e.g., P=min {P_(max), P_(schedule)}. Thus, the transmission power is apower level without power scaling by the UE to reduce the transmissionpower.

At 904, the UE determines antenna port(s) having non-zero data fortransmission. For example, antenna port component 1010 of apparatus 1002may determine the antenna ports having non-zero data for transmission.For example, the UE may determine antenna port(s) having non-zero PUSCHfor transmission. The determination of the antenna ports may be based,at least in part, on a precoder indicated to the UE by the base station.The precoder may be indicated to the UE in downlink control signaling,e.g., in DCI. The UE may take different actions, e.g., depending on thedetermined number of antenna ports. Then, at 906, the UE may determine atransmission power split for the at least one antenna port.

In one example, the UE may determine multiple antenna ports having thenon-zero data for transmission, at 904. The multiple antenna ports maybe coherent antenna ports. As an example, the UE may determine coherentantenna ports without any non-coherent antenna ports being determined ashaving non-zero data for transmission. In this example, determining thetransmission power split, at 906 may include splitting the transmissionpower among the multiple antenna ports without scaling the transmissionpower. For example, split component 1012 of apparatus 1002 may split thetransmission power. In an example, precoding may be applied, at 910,e.g., based on a codebook that limits simultaneous data transmission tocoherent antennas. For example, precoder component 1014 of apparatus1002 may apply the precoding. Thus, for two antenna ports havingnon-zero data for transmission, the transmission power determined at 902may be split equally between the two coherent antennas, each antennatransmitting using ½ the full transmission power.

In a second example, the UE may determine multiple, non-coherent antennaports as having the non-zero data for transmission. In this example, thetransmission power may be split, at 906, across the multiple,non-coherent antenna ports having the non-zero data for transmission.For example, split component 1012 of apparatus 1002 may split thetransmission power. In this example, the UE may precode the datatransmission, at 908, based on a codebook for simultaneous transmissionfrom the multiple, non-coherent antenna ports. For example, precodercomponent 1014 of apparatus 1002 may apply the precoding. The UE mayfurther apply a diversity scheme, at 912, among the first set ofcoherent antenna ports and the second set of coherent antenna ports. Forexample, diversity scheme component 1016 of apparatus 1002 may apply thediversity scheme. The use of such schemes among non-coherent sets ofantennas provides diversity even when phase coherence is not able to bemaintained between the sets of antennas. In one example, the diversityscheme may comprise an open-loop, non-transparent diversity scheme.Among others, examples of open-loop, non-transparent diversity schememay include SFBC, STBC, etc. In another example, the diversity schememay comprise a transparent diversity scheme. Among others, an exampletransparent diversity scheme may include a small delay CDD.

At 914, the UE transmits the data transmission from the at least oneantenna port. For example, transmission component 1006 of apparatus 1002may transmit the data. The combined transmission power from the oneantenna port(s) for the data transmission corresponds to thetransmission power determined based at least in part on the powercontrol signaled from the base station, e.g., the full transmissionpower without scaling by the UE to reduce the transmission power.

In one example, a single antenna port may be determined, at 904, ashaving the non-zero data for transmission. In this example, the datatransmission, at 914, may be transmitted from the single antenna portusing the full transmission power determined by the UE, at 902.

FIG. 10 is a conceptual data flow diagram 1000 illustrating the dataflow between different means/components in an exemplary apparatus 1002.The apparatus may be a UE or a component of a UE (e.g., UE 104, 350,802). The apparatus includes a reception component 1004 that receivesdownlink communication from base station 1050 (e.g., base station 102,180, 310, 804) and a transmission component 1006 that transmits uplinkcommunication to the base station 1050. The apparatus may include atransmission power component 1008 for determining a transmission powerfor a data transmission from the UE to a base station based at least inpart on power control signaling from the base station. The apparatus mayinclude an antenna port component 1010 for determining at least oneantenna port having non-zero data for transmission. The apparatus mayinclude a split component 1012 for determining a transmission powersplit for the at least one antenna port. The apparatus may include adata component 1018 for transmitting the data transmission from the atleast one antenna port, via the transmission component 1006, wherein acombined transmission power from the at least one antenna portcorresponds to the transmission power determined by the transmissionpower component 1008 based at least in part on the power controlsignaled from the base station. The apparatus may further include aprecoder component 1014 for precoding the data transmission based on acodebook for simultaneous transmission from the multiple, non-coherentantenna ports. The apparatus may include a diversity scheme component1016 for applying a diversity scheme (e.g., an open-loop diversityscheme and/or a transparent diversity scheme) among the first set ofcoherent antenna ports and the second set of coherent antenna ports.

The transmission power component 1008 may determine the transmissionpower to be a minimum of a maximum power that the UE can transmit and asecond transmission power scheduled by the base station via the powercontrol signaling. The antenna port component 1010 may determine the atleast one antenna port based at least in part on a precoder indicated tothe UE by the base station. The antenna port component 1010 maydetermine multiple, coherent antenna ports having the non-zero data fortransmission, and the split component 1012 may split the transmissionpower among the multiple, coherent antenna ports without scaling thetransmission power. The antenna port component 1010 may determinemultiple, non-coherent antenna ports having the non-zero data fortransmission, and the split component 1012 may split the transmissionpower across the multiple, non-coherent antenna ports having thenon-zero data for transmission.

The apparatus may include additional components that perform each of theblocks of the algorithm in the aforementioned flowcharts of FIGS. 6A,6B, 8, and 9. As such, each block in the aforementioned flowcharts ofFIGS. 6A, 6B, 8, and 9 may be performed by a component and the apparatusmay include one or more of those components. The components may be oneor more hardware components specifically configured to carry out thestated processes/algorithm, implemented by a processor configured toperform the stated processes/algorithm, stored within acomputer-readable medium for implementation by a processor, or somecombination thereof.

FIG. 11 is a diagram 1100 illustrating an example of a hardwareimplementation for an apparatus 1002′ employing a processing system1114. The processing system 1114 may be implemented with a busarchitecture, represented generally by the bus 1124. The bus 1124 mayinclude any number of interconnecting buses and bridges depending on thespecific application of the processing system 1114 and the overalldesign constraints. The bus 1124 links together various circuitsincluding one or more processors and/or hardware components, representedby the processor 1104, the components 1004, 1006, 1008, 1010, 1012,1014, 1016, 1018, and the computer-readable medium/memory 1106. The bus1124 may also link various other circuits such as timing sources,peripherals, voltage regulators, and power management circuits, whichare well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described anyfurther.

The processing system 1114 may be coupled to a transceiver 1110. Thetransceiver 1110 is coupled to one or more antennas 1120. Thetransceiver 1110 provides a means for communicating with various otherapparatus over a transmission medium. The transceiver 1110 receives asignal from the one or more antennas 1120, extracts information from thereceived signal, and provides the extracted information to theprocessing system 1114, specifically the reception component 1004. Inaddition, the transceiver 1110 receives information from the processingsystem 1114, specifically the transmission component 1006, and based onthe received information, generates a signal to be applied to the one ormore antennas 1120. The processing system 1114 includes a processor 1104coupled to a computer-readable medium/memory 1106. The processor 1104 isresponsible for general processing, including the execution of softwarestored on the computer-readable medium/memory 1106. The software, whenexecuted by the processor 1104, causes the processing system 1114 toperform the various functions described supra for any particularapparatus. The computer-readable medium/memory 1106 may also be used forstoring data that is manipulated by the processor 1104 when executingsoftware. The processing system 1114 further includes at least one ofthe components 1004, 1006, 1008, 1010, 1012, 1014, 1016, 1018. Thecomponents may be software components running in the processor 1104,resident/stored in the computer readable medium/memory 1106, one or morehardware components coupled to the processor 1104, or some combinationthereof. The processing system 1114 may be a component of the UE 350 andmay include the memory 360 and/or at least one of the TX processor 368,the RX processor 356, and the controller/processor 359. Alternatively,the processing system 1114 may be the entire UE (e.g., see 350 of FIG.3).

In one configuration, the apparatus 1002/1002′ for wirelesscommunication includes means for determining a transmission power for adata transmission from the UE to a base station based at least in parton power control signaling from the base station. The apparatus mayinclude means for determining at least one antenna port having non-zerodata for transmission. The apparatus may include means for determining atransmission power split for the at least one antenna port and means fortransmitting the data transmission from the at least one antenna port,wherein a combined transmission power from the at least one antenna portcorresponds to the transmission power determined based at least in parton the power control signaled from the base station. The apparatus mayfurther include means for precoding the data transmission based on acodebook for simultaneous transmission from the multiple, non-coherentantenna ports. The apparatus may include means for applying a diversityscheme (e.g., an open-loop diversity scheme and/or a transparentdiversity scheme) among the first set of coherent antenna ports and thesecond set of coherent antenna ports. The means for determining thetransmission power may determine the transmission power to be a minimumof a maximum power that the UE can transmit and a second transmissionpower scheduled by the base station via the power control signaling. Themeans for determining the at least one antenna port having the non-zerodata for transmission may determine the at least one antenna port basedat least in part on a precoder indicated to the UE by the base station.The means for determining the at least one antenna port may determinemultiple, coherent antenna ports having the non-zero data fortransmission, and the means for determining the transmission power splitmay split the transmission power among the multiple, coherent antennaports without scaling the transmission power. The means for determiningthe at least one antenna port may determine multiple, non-coherentantenna ports having the non-zero data for transmission, and thetransmission power may be split across the multiple, non-coherentantenna ports having the non-zero data for transmission.

The aforementioned means may be one or more of the aforementionedcomponents of the apparatus 1002 and/or the processing system 1114 ofthe apparatus 1002′ configured to perform the functions recited by theaforementioned means. As described supra, the processing system 1114 mayinclude the TX Processor 368, the RX Processor 356, and thecontroller/processor 359. As such, in one configuration, theaforementioned means may be the TX Processor 368, the RX Processor 356,and the controller/processor 359 configured to perform the functionsrecited by the aforementioned means.

It is understood that the specific order or hierarchy of blocks in theprocesses/flowcharts disclosed is an illustration of exemplaryapproaches. Based upon design preferences, it is understood that thespecific order or hierarchy of blocks in the processes/flowcharts may berearranged. Further, some blocks may be combined or omitted. Theaccompanying method claims present elements of the various blocks in asample order, and are not meant to be limited to the specific order orhierarchy presented.

The previous description is provided to enable any person skilled in theart to practice the various aspects described herein. Variousmodifications to these aspects will be readily apparent to those skilledin the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied toother aspects. Thus, the claims are not intended to be limited to theaspects shown herein, but is to be accorded the full scope consistentwith the language claims, wherein reference to an element in thesingular is not intended to mean “one and only one” unless specificallyso stated, but rather “one or more.” The word “exemplary” is used hereinto mean “serving as an example, instance, or illustration.” Any aspectdescribed herein as “exemplary” is not necessarily to be construed aspreferred or advantageous over other aspects. Unless specifically statedotherwise, the term “some” refers to one or more. Combinations such as“at least one of A, B, or C,” “one or more of A, B, or C,” “at least oneof A, B, and C,” “one or more of A, B, and C,” and “A, B, C, or anycombination thereof” include any combination of A, B, and/or C, and mayinclude multiples of A, multiples of B, or multiples of C. Specifically,combinations such as “at least one of A, B, or C,” “one or more of A, B,or C,” “at least one of A, B, and C,” “one or more of A, B, and C,” and“A, B, C, or any combination thereof” may be A only, B only, C only, Aand B, A and C, B and C, or A and B and C, where any such combinationsmay contain one or more member or members of A, B, or C. All structuraland functional equivalents to the elements of the various aspectsdescribed throughout this disclosure that are known or later come to beknown to those of ordinary skill in the art are expressly incorporatedherein by reference and are intended to be encompassed by the claims.Moreover, nothing disclosed herein is intended to be dedicated to thepublic regardless of whether such disclosure is explicitly recited inthe claims. The words “module,” “mechanism,” “element,” “device,” andthe like may not be a substitute for the word “means.” As such, no claimelement is to be construed as a means plus function unless the elementis expressly recited using the phrase “means for.”

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of wireless communication at a UserEquipment (UE), comprising: determining a full transmission power for adata transmission from partially coherent antenna sets to a base stationbased at least in part on a power control signaling from the basestation, wherein the partially coherent antenna sets comprise a firstset of coherent antenna ports that is non-coherent to a second set ofcoherent antenna ports based on a relative phase difference oftransmitted uplink signals between the first set of coherent antennaports and the second set of coherent antenna ports; determining multipleantenna ports in the partially coherent antenna sets having non-zerodata for transmission; determining a transmission power split of thefull transmission power determined with the power control signaling bysplitting the full transmission power equally across each of themultiple antenna ports on which the UE transmits the data transmissionwith non-zero power; and transmitting the data transmission from themultiple antenna ports based on a diversity scheme across the partiallycoherent antenna sets, wherein the diversity scheme comprises anopen-loop non-transparent diversity scheme that includes a selectedcoding between space-frequency block coding and space-time block coding,wherein a combined transmission power from the multiple antenna portscorresponds to the full transmission power determined based at least inpart on the power control signaling from the base station.
 2. The methodof claim 1, wherein the full transmission power is determined tocorrespond to a minimum of a maximum output power that the UE isconfigured to transmit and a second transmission power scheduled by thebase station via the power control signaling.
 3. The method of claim 1,further comprising: receiving, from the base station, an indication of aprecoder, wherein the determining the multiple antenna ports comprisesdetermining the multiple antenna ports in the partially coherent antennasets having the non-zero data for transmission based at least in part onthe indication of the precoder.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein thedetermining the multiple antenna ports comprises determining multiple,non-coherent antenna ports in the partially coherent antenna sets havingthe non-zero data for transmission.
 5. The method of claim 4, whereinthe determining the transmission power split comprises splitting thefull transmission power equally across the multiple, non-coherentantenna ports having the non-zero data for transmission.
 6. The methodof claim 4, further comprising: precoding the data transmission based ona codebook for simultaneous transmission from the multiple, non-coherentantenna ports.
 7. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determiningwhether the first set of coherent antenna ports and the second set ofcoherent antenna ports maintain the relative phase difference betweeneach other over time; determining that the first set of coherent antennaports is non-coherent to the second set of coherent antenna ports whenthe first set of coherent antenna ports and the second set of coherentantenna ports do not maintain the relative phase difference between eachother over time; and applying the diversity scheme to the first set ofcoherent antenna ports and the second set of coherent antenna ports. 8.An apparatus for wireless communication at a User Equipment (UE),comprising: means for determining a full transmission power for a datatransmission from partially coherent antenna sets to a base stationbased at least in part on a power control signaling from the basestation, wherein the partially coherent antenna sets comprise a firstset of coherent antenna ports that is non-coherent to a second set ofcoherent antenna ports based on a relative phase difference oftransmitted uplink signals between the first set of coherent antennaports and the second set of coherent antenna ports; means fordetermining multiple antenna ports in the partially coherent antennasets having non-zero data for transmission; means for determining atransmission power split of the full transmission power determined withthe power control signaling by splitting the full transmission powerequally across each of the multiple antenna ports on which the UEtransmits the data transmission with non-zero power; and means fortransmitting the data transmission from the multiple antenna ports basedon a diversity scheme across the partially coherent antenna sets,wherein the diversity scheme comprises an open-loop non-transparentdiversity scheme that includes a selected coding between space-frequencyblock coding and space-time block coding, wherein a combinedtransmission power from the multiple antenna ports corresponds to thefull transmission power determined based at least in part on the powercontrol signaling from the base station.
 9. The apparatus of claim 8,wherein the means for determining the multiple antenna ports isconfigured to determine multiple, non-coherent antenna ports having thenon-zero data for transmission, the apparatus further comprising: meansfor precoding the data transmission based on a codebook for simultaneoustransmission from the multiple, non-coherent antenna ports.
 10. Theapparatus of claim 8, further comprising: means for determining whetherthe first set of coherent antenna ports and the second set of coherentantenna ports maintain the relative phase difference between each otherover time; means for determining that the first set of coherent antennaports is non-coherent to the second set of coherent antenna ports whenthe first set of coherent antenna ports and the second set of coherentantenna ports do not maintain the relative phase difference between eachother over time; and means for applying the diversity scheme to thefirst set of coherent antenna ports and the second set of coherentantenna ports.
 11. An apparatus for wireless communication at a UserEquipment (UE), comprising: a memory; and at least one processor coupledto the memory and configured to: determine a full transmission power fora data transmission from partially coherent antenna sets to a basestation based at least in part on a power control signaling from thebase station, wherein the partially coherent antenna sets comprise afirst set of coherent antenna ports that is non-coherent to a second setof coherent antenna ports based on a relative phase difference oftransmitted uplink signals between the first set of coherent antennaports and the second set of coherent antenna ports; determine multipleantenna ports in the partially coherent antenna sets having non-zerodata for transmission; determine a transmission power split of the fulltransmission power determined with the power control signaling bysplitting the full transmission power equally across each of themultiple antenna ports on which the UE transmits the data transmissionwith non-zero power; and transmit the data transmission from themultiple antenna ports based on a diversity scheme, wherein thediversity scheme comprises an open-loop non-transparent diversity schemethat includes a selected coding between space-frequency block coding andspace-time block coding, wherein a combined transmission power from themultiple antenna ports corresponds to the full transmission powerdetermined based at least in part on the power control signaling fromthe base station.
 12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the fulltransmission power is determined to correspond to a minimum of a maximumoutput power that the UE is configured to transmit and a secondtransmission power scheduled by the base station via the power controlsignaling.
 13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least oneprocessor is further configured to: receive, from the base station, anindication of a precoder, determine the multiple antenna ports in thepartially coherent antenna sets having the non-zero data fortransmission based at least in part on the indication of the precoder,and determine multiple, non-coherent antenna ports in the partiallycoherent antenna sets having the non-zero data for transmission.
 14. Theapparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor is furtherconfigured to split the full transmission power across the multiple,non-coherent antenna ports having the non-zero data for transmission.15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor isfurther configured to: precode the data transmission based on a codebookfor simultaneous transmission from the multiple, non-coherent antennaports.
 16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one processoris further configured to: determine whether the first set of coherentantenna ports and the second set of coherent antenna ports maintain therelative phase difference between each other over time, determine thatthe first set of coherent antenna ports is non-coherent to the secondset of coherent antenna ports when the first set of coherent antennaports and the second set of coherent antenna ports do not maintain therelative phase difference between each other over time, and apply thediversity scheme to the first set of coherent antenna ports and thesecond set of coherent antenna ports.
 17. A non-transitorycomputer-readable medium storing computer executable code for wirelesscommunication at a User Equipment (UE), the code when executed by atleast one processor, causes the UE to: determine a full transmissionpower for a data transmission from partially coherent antenna sets to abase station based at least in part on a power control signaling fromthe base station, wherein the partially coherent antenna sets comprise afirst set of coherent antenna ports that is non-coherent to a second setof coherent antenna ports based on a relative phase difference oftransmitted uplink signals between the first set of coherent antennaports and the second set of coherent antenna ports; determine multipleantenna ports in the partially coherent antenna sets having non-zerodata for transmission; determine a transmission power split of the fulltransmission power determined with the power control signaling bysplitting the full transmission power equally across each of themultiple antenna ports on which the UE transmits the data transmissionwith non-zero power; and transmit the data transmission from themultiple antenna ports based on a diversity scheme, wherein thediversity scheme comprises an open-loop non-transparent diversity schemethat includes a selected coding between space-frequency block coding andspace-time block coding, wherein a combined transmission power from themultiple antenna ports corresponds to the full transmission powerdetermined based at least in part on the power control signaling fromthe base station.